Marblehead resident serves as Courage Curriculum essay judge

On May 3, more than 325 guests gathered in the Imperial Ballroom at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel to celebrate the Max Warburg Courage Curriculum’s 22nd annual Awards Luncheon and the exceptional courage of 41 sixth-grade students from Boston and surrounding communities. Over 100 volunteer judges, including Marblehead resident Lynne Breed, selected the winning essays.

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By Staff reports

Posted May. 16, 2013 at 12:01 AM
Updated May 16, 2013 at 4:18 PM

By Staff reports

Posted May. 16, 2013 at 12:01 AM
Updated May 16, 2013 at 4:18 PM

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On May 3, more than 325 guests gathered in the Imperial Ballroom at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel to celebrate the Max Warburg Courage Curriculum’s 22nd annual Awards Luncheon and the exceptional courage of 41 sixth-grade students from Boston and surrounding communities. The students honored as 2013 Max Warburg Fellows at this special event were chosen by a panel of judges to have their essays published in the 22nd volume of “The Courage of Boston’s Children,” the organization’s annual publication. Over 100 volunteer judges, including Marblehead resident Lynne Breed, selected the winning essays from the thousands submitted from 33 middle and K-8 schools in Boston and surrounding communities.

The students, joined by their teachers, principals and families, each received a medal from Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, Max Warburg Courage Curriculum’s founder and president Stephanie Warburg and Fred Warburg.

The Max Warburg Courage Curriculum is a language-arts and character-development curriculum that honors the life of Max Warburg, an 11-year-old Boston student who lost his courageous battle with leukemia in 1991. This yearlong program empowers sixth- and ninth-grade students to realize that their actions and decisions can be powerful agents of change, both in their lives and the lives of others.

Through reading, writing and discussion, students discover and recognize the role of courage in the lives of the characters they read about, in the lives of those around them, and in their own lives. Since 1991, the Max Warburg Courage Curriculum has served more than 150,000 young people and supported their teachers in promoting literacy and value-based education. The Courage Curriculum is in residence at Northeastern University and continues to grow on a local, national and international level.